Dennis Trillo companion dies in Boracay accident

By JOCELYN VALLE
September 9, 2009, 7:33pm

Movie and TV personalities Dennis Trillo and Max Eigenmann are “shocked and distraught” over the Boracay accident that claimed the life of their non-showbiz companion on Sept. 9 but are both all right now, according to their respective managers.

“(Trillo) is shocked and distraught but he’s OK,” Popoy Caritativo told Manila Bulletin Online a few hours after the accident.

He added that his ward who’s also a prized GMA-7 talent was taken to a clinic in Boracay for the treatment of the cuts and other minor injuries that he sustained after the accident.

Caritativo said Trillo knew that his non-showbiz friend, Jolly Bee Bordajo, already passed away.

“He’s still in shock kaya hindi ko masyadong makausap sa phone,” he pointed out.

The Coast Guard District in Caticlan, Aklan, where Boracay Island is located had reported that Trillo, Eigenmann, and Bordajo were swimming in the afternoon of Sept. 9 at a resort in Brgy. Biniwid when a giant wave caught their group causing them to disperse in different areas.

The report added that elements from the Coast Guard-Caticlan District immediately dispatched their search and rescue vessel to conduct rescue operation. Trillo and Eigenmann were found and rescued at once, but it took several more minutes before the coast guards found the unconscious Bordajo, who was then taken to the Seneres Hospital where he was declared dead on arrival due to drowning.

Caritativo said that Trillo and Bordajo went to Boracay on Sept. 8 for a vacation.

Trillo had just wrapped up work on Channel 7’s comedy series, “Adik sa ‘Yo,” which will end on Sept. 11 while his latest Regal Films project, “Tarot,” opened on Aug. 26.

“That’s why he needed a vacation,” Caritativo said, adding that Trillo is scheduled to fly back to Manila on Sept. 10.

Eigenmann, on the other hand, is a mainstay of ABS-CBN’s “Agimat: Ang Mga Alamat ni Ramon Revilla Sr. Presents Tiagong Akyat” and TV5’s “Lipgloss.” She belongs to the illustrious Eigenmann clan of actors along with her father Mark Gil and brother Sid Lucero.